I can barely remember visiting Fort Michilimackinac at the top of Michigan’s Lower Peninsula when I was maybe five years old. About fifth grade, I read the account of the Indian uprising that took place there during Pontiac’s Rebellion. We took our son to the fort when he was a youngster, and I reread the first-hand account of the uprising from a man who survived it. Twenty-five years later, I sat down to write this fictional story with that battle as a backdrop. 

The British had ousted the French at the end of the French and Indian War and taken possession of the French forts, including Fort Michilimackinac (pronounced Mich-ee-leh-mack-in-naw). The native tribes were not pleased. The French had been generous traders and the tribes had grown dependent on their trade goods. The British were less generous and insufferably arrogant. It wasn’t a good combination. Pontiac, an Ottawa chief, organized the tribes in the Great Lakes region to stage a revolt. He was not part of the attack at Fort Michilimackinac, but he inspired those who executed it. Fort Michilimackinac was one of the forts successfully taken by the Indian forces.

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Pegg Thomas lives on a hobby farm in Northern Michigan with Michael, her husband of *mumble* years. A life-long history geek, she writes “History with a Touch of Humor.” When not working or writing, Pegg can be found in her barn, her garden, her kitchen, or sitting at her spinning wheel creating yarn to turn into her signature wool shawls.

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